I mean… I don’t get what they’re lamenting, lemmy.ml, even if created by comrades, is a pretty liberal instance, comrades like yoghots (shout out to him) get censored and banned unjustly all the time, they just can’t stand the fact that people have ideologies differing from the democratic party.
If you want delete comments with all federated instances just edit them to something like “deleted” or whatever, the edit will spread and makes your comment literarily empty / useless / deleted.
Bit tedious if you have hundreds or thousands of messages. Honestly that is a bit of an oversight and hopefully gets patched out at some point.
I think that works even if you delete a comment, federation only seems to stop if you delete the account itself
Is it possible to laugh at this in wayback machine though?